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Ekuri Community Forest (ICCA)
Old & New Ekuri villages, Cross River State
Nigeria
Active (community-managed ICCA)
Regional cluster
- Location
- Old & New Ekuri villages, Cross River State
- Coordinates
- ~5.9°N 8.4°E
- Elevation
- Lowland rainforest
- Size
- 33,600 ha community forest
- Age / Founded
- Community management since 1980s (ancestral forest)
- Status
- Active (community-managed ICCA)
- Deity & Religion
- Customary/ancestral community governance (Nkokoli people) — community-conserved (not single-deity)
- Community & Guardians
- Ekuri (Nkokoli) people (~6,200)
- Vernacular name
- Community-conserved forest (Nkokoli)
- Record type
- Regional cluster
Cultural practices & uses
Community forest management; farming, hunting, gathering; resisted logging
Plant species
~1,568 plant species (77 Nigeria-endemic; 1,303 flowering, 141 lichens, 56 mosses)
Biome & fauna
Cross River lowland rainforest; ~950 butterfly spp; forest elephants, Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, drills, grey-necked rockfowl, leopards
Threats & protection
Registered ICCA; threatened by superhighway/logging proposals
Source
Ekuri ICCA (ICCA Registry); Equator Initiative; Mongabay 2019